Carbs are vital for nutrient partitioning and uptake and this is why every serious athlete manipulates carb feeding, and bodybuilders especially play with insulin, etc. People were always mixing maltodextrin into their intra and post workout refeeds, and if a normal person tried eating the white rice portions bodybuilders and strength athletes eat alongside their other macros they’d be shocked.
This is like how regular Gatorade with sugar took a heel turn when it tried to go mainstream “electrolytes healthy, sugar bad” despite the sugar being necessary for optimal replenishment as carbs aids electrolyte uptake in the gut and the sugar free versions are far less effective at rehydration [0].
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK231364/#:~:text=Glucos....